Members and Friends Exhibition to be held at Galesburg Civic Art Center

The Galesburg Civic Art Center is pleased to present our annual Members & Friends Exhibition at the Art Center Gallery. This show includes recent works by members and friends of the Art Center. Paintings, sculptures, photography, collage, metal work, and many other kinds of media will be included. The exhibition is sponsored by Bates Collision Center and Dr. Reuel and Kathy Owen.

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Posted Aug. 2, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Updated Aug 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM

Posted Aug. 2, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Updated Aug 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM

GALESBURG

The Galesburg Civic Art Center is pleased to present our annual Members & Friends Exhibition at the Art Center Gallery. This show includes recent works by members and friends of the Art Center. Paintings, sculptures, photography, collage, metal work, and many other kinds of media will be included. The exhibition is sponsored by Bates Collision Center and Dr. Reuel and Kathy Owen.

Awards and prizes will be presented by this year’s judge, Michael Godsil. Mr. Godsil is in his 26th year of teaching photography, digital photography and photojournalism in the Department of Art & Art History and the Journalism Program at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. His personal creative photography is primarily of landscapes, nature details and architectural details. He usually uses a large format 4”x5” field camera with traditional analog film and darkroom methods, but in recent years he’s also increasingly worked in digital photography.

Recent self-assigned projects have involved multiple trips to the American Southwest to photograph isolated Anasazi Indian ruins, and an ongoing project photographing receding glaciers in Alaska, Montana and the Canadian Rockies. Photographs from the Anasazi and Inca sites now comprise a sizeable body of work titled “Ancient Echoes in Stone”, which has been exhibited as a solo exhibition in multiple venues over the past few years.

This exhibition is on display from Saturday, August 4, through Saturday, September 1. The public opening reception which includes awards and the judge’s comments will be on Saturday, August 4, from 6 to 8 pm at the Galesburg Civic Arts Center, 114 E. Main St., Galesburg, IL 61401.

Awards are presented for Best of Show, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media/Fiber, Works on Paper, Three-Dimensional, and the Linda Lytle Memorial. The award sponsors include: Artistic Portraits, Calico Cat, Chez Willy’s, The Frame Works, Lacky & Sons Monuments, and Jim Straub of Walsworth Yearbooks. The show is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.